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    271 ms. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Collection API (Open Access)

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Results for ""A Ruffian Spares the Life of a Poor Man"12 records

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Bronze portrait bust of a man by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bronze portrait bust of a man

Unrecorded maker

1st half of the 3rd century CE · Bronze

Cleared · Public Domain

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Saint Martin Brings a Dead Man to Life by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Saint Martin Brings a Dead Man to Life

Unrecorded maker

1430–35 · Linen plain weave underlaid with linen plain weave and embroidered with silk and gilt-metal-strip-wrapped silk in split and stem stitches, laid work, and couching, including or nué

Cleared · Public Domain

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"The Poor Man Apprehends the Thief", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna by an unrecorded maker, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"The Poor Man Apprehends the Thief", Folio from a Kalila wa Dimna

Unrecorded maker

second quarter 16th century · Ink and opaque watercolor on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Two Studies of a Man by Santi di Tito, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two Studies of a Man

Santi di Tito (d. 1603)

ca. 1575 · Black chalk (recto); rulings in red chalk and black chalk by early collector (verso)

Cleared · Public Domain

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"A Ruffian Spares the Life of a Poor Man", Folio 4v from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds) by Farid al-Din `Attar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

"A Ruffian Spares the Life of a Poor Man", Folio 4v from a Mantiq al-Tayr (Language of the Birds)

Farid al-Din `Attar (d. 1220)

ca. 1600 · Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Portrait of a man by Thomas Frye, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a man

Thomas Frye (d. 1762)

1760 · Black and white chalk on beige paper

Cleared · Public Domain

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Portrait of a Man by Jean Etienne Liotard, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a Man

Jean Etienne Liotard (d. 1789)

1755–65 · Red and black chalk on off-white laid paper, verso worked in black chalk (in area corresponding to the sitter's jacket on the recto)

Cleared · Public Domain

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Three Principal Requisites to Form a Modern Man of Fashion by Thomas Rowlandson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Three Principal Requisites to Form a Modern Man of Fashion

Thomas Rowlandson (d. 1827)

September 15, 1814 · Hand-colored etching

Cleared · Public Domain

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Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man by Théodore Géricault, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man

Théodore Géricault (d. 1824)

1822 · Lithograph

Cleared · Public Domain

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

La femme (Woman)

Man Ray (d. 1976)

1918–1920 · Gelatin silver print

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Mussolini Giving Orders to Teruzzi, Commandant of the Fascist Militia

Felix H. Man (d. 1985)

1931 · Gelatin silver print

In copyright

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No open reproduction

The institution withholds the image for this record, which is itself the answer: the picture on their page is not theirs to give away.

Plaque with still life

Henry Varnum Poor (d. 1970)

ca. 1925–30 · Earthenware

In copyright

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